“Victor” is the first chapter of our “Trilogy of Immortality”, a series of plays inspired by great gothic novels. It will be followed by “Dracula” by Bram Stoker and the “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” by Robert Luis Stevenson. This idea is inspired by our desire to explore the uncontrollable forces that inhabit our bodies.

Long before the theatre, we felt as if Frankenstein transmitted the same images, atmospheres and emotion that we felt the urge to express. Our aim was not to tell a romantic tale, but rather to talk about its characters. Nightmares, fear turning into illness, a deep loneliness that won’t set us free, perhaps not until the next life. Among and inside us, some “monsters” come to life, ungovernable forces we wish we had never created. We thought long about the problem of loss making the end unacceptable, making us long to bring lives and souls back, constantly, whatever the cost.

We looked at the relationship between Victor Frankenstein and its creature: the son he never had, a corpse, a old father, his double, a ghost. “Victor” is an attempt at painting a portrait of intimacy. An interior ocean filled with floating ruins, the ruins of what died but had no proper end, of all the things that we don’t want to leave, everything we fight against, in order to avoid becoming the ghosts of ourselves.

Victor’s present is made of distant memories and unattainable futures; then everything disappears, and all that is left is a sacred altar made of will-‘o-wisps that only last a few minutes, ephemeral flames whose embers will never burn again. For a very short time, it looks like a big flame is about to burst, a real one, hot, blinding, light and strong. Maybe it was just a dream, but we craved it so bad that we suddenly fell into another world…